Good point, I guess I don't need sendmail. I was wondering if it was a
required service or not.
Thanks,
Rob Yale
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Burger
> Sent: December 12, 2000 3:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Another sendmail question
>
>
> It is definitely related to DNS.
>
> Does your resolv.conf file point to valid DNS servers, and does your
> reverse DNS have a valid address for your system's IP address?
>
> You could also add an entry in your /etc/hosts file for your IP and a
> name, so that Sendmail can finish loading.
>
> eth0 is definitely failing because PCMCIA is not yet initialized...once
> PCMCIA loads, eth0 loads up right away.
>
> Since this appears to be a laptop, my question to you is: Do you need
> Sendmail running on that system? You could just as easily point
> Pine/whatever mailer you're using to the smtp and pop3 servers you need.
>
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Rob Yale wrote:
>
> > When my system boots, it pauses on sendmail for an inordinately
> long time.
> > Could this have something to do with name resolution, and if
> so, how do I
> > resolve it? Another factor that I was also wondering about is that eth0
> > initially fails; presumably because pcmcia hasn't loaded yet. I tried
> > changing the load order in rc3.d but it still seems to suffer
> from a delayed
> > initialization. Any thoughts?
>
>
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